Time Line of Greece

• early Greek speaking people settle the Peloponnese (c. 2000 B.C.)
• Greeks living in tribal communities (c. 1200 B.C.)
• Dorians migrate to Greece (c. 1200 B.C.)

• Ionians settle on the west coast of Asia Minor (c. 1000 B.C.)
• iron in use in Greece (c. 1000 B.C.)

• first Greek city-states (c. 900 B.C.)

• Iliad and Odyssey written by Homer (c. 800 B.C.)
• Greek alphabet first used (c. 800 B.C.)
• Greeks settle on the Spanish coast and in southern Italy
• first recorded Olympic Games (776 B.C.)

• town of Byzantium founded by the Greek sailor, Byzas (c. 700 B.C.)

• last Greek monarchies at Argos, Sparta, and Thera (c. 600 B.C.)
• birth of Pythagoras, Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 582 B.C.)
• Croesus of Lydia subjugates Greek Ionian colonies (c. 560 B.C.)
• Persia conquers Lydia including the Ionian Greeks (547 - 546 B.C.)
• Pythagoras introduces the octave in music
• democracy in Athens (509 B.C.)

• Pericles of Athens is born (500 B.C.)
• Ionian War (499 B.C.-494 B.C.)
• Darius I of Persia defeated by the Greeks at Marathon (490 B.C.)
• birth of Herodotus (485 B.C.)
• Persia, led by Xerxes, invades Greece (480 B.C.)
• Persians suffer defeat by the Greeks at Plataea and Mycale; Persian expansion halted (479 B.C.)
• birth of Socrates (470 B.C.)
• birth of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine (460 B.C.)
• First Pelopennesian war between Athens and Sparta (457 B.C.-445 B.C.)
• Second Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (431 B.C.-404 B.C.)
• plague in Athens (430 B.C.-423 B.C.)
• birth of Plato (427 B.C.)
• Thucydides is exiled from Athens (424 B.C.)
• Plato becomes the pupil of Socrates (407 B.C. - 399 B.C.)
• Athens surrenders to Sparta to end the Peloponnesian War (404 B.C.)

• birth of Aristotle (384 B.C.)
• Philip of Macedon defeats an invading Athenian army at Chaeronea (338 B.C.)

• Greek culture begins to influence Axum (c. 300 B.C.)
• birth of Archimedes, Greek mathematician (287 B.C.)
• Antigonus Gonatus, king of Macedonia, conquers some of the Greek states (262 B.C.)

• Greece falls under Roman control (147 B.C.)

• Goths sack Athens, Sparta, and Corinth (268 A.D.)

• Greek fire invented by Kallinikos (671 A.D.)